While baking can be hard depending on what you make, some tips can help guide you through the process and what seems impossible! Although it takes practice to overcome challenges. These tips help speed up the process.

For most recipes, the call for room temperature ingredients. For example, some recipes call for room-temperature eggs or room-temperature butter. Most recipes call for this specifically because it helps with the outcome of your recipe. Room-temperature eggs help in specific recipes like angel food cakes, cookies, and cakes. Although most recipes don’t call for it specifically, it can help improve the process. They help prevent a very grainy, gritty texture in your batter. For room-temperature butter, it’s very helpful for recipes that involve creaming together wet ingredients to have a whipped outcome. If you ever forget or don’t have time to get the butter to room temperature, you can always microwave it for 5-15 seconds but be careful not to melt the butter.

In other recipes, some ingredients like flour and powdered sugar need to be sifted. The main reason for this is to get rid of any clumps that weren’t already destroyed while whisking. If you skip this step in some recipes, It can ruin the form of your batter and make it lumpy. An example of this important step would be making macarons. The outcome of skipping this step can give your macaron a lumpy texture on the shell and make it look unappealing. 

Some recipes call for mixing dry ingredients in a separate bowl and combining them before mixing them into wet ingredients. The reason for this is because it prevents the need to overmix your batter. If you end up overmixing, it can lead to a tough dough which leads to very dense-like baked goods. So to prevent this from happening, it’s good to mix them both separately and then mix them.